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Next Class Begins: October 15, 2017All applications are being held for our next free beginners' class, to begin on or about October 15. Application review begins October 1 and all applicants will be contacted by October 8.

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Montu

Other Names:

Month, Mentu, Monthis

(Month, Mentu; G/R Monthis) - "Nomad" Montu, like Min, is another early Name which was assimilated into the cult of Amen at Uaset. Montu is originally depicted as either a bull, a hawk, or a hawk-headed man and is patron of all manner of martial arts and warfare, strength and masculine virility. The Greeks considered Montu a form of Ares, their war-god. Montu's prowess at leading armies and war parties caused his invocation before battles, and Kemet's greatest general-kings would call themselves "mighty bulls," the sons of Montu. Montu eventually would become nearly enfolded within the syncretic concept of Amen-Ra and that composite figure would absorb most of Montu's fighting nature, becoming the patron Netjer of the warrior-Pharaohs of the New Kingdom Empire.